2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I am Very Disappointed with the Democratic Party [View all]DLnyc
(2,479 posts)I was thinking about a name today. I like this one because it includes three important parts:
1) Independent (not controlled by either party or by the financial elite)
2) Social: The program Bernie has outlined, which is essentially the reason for his popularity, essentially says that social considerations are more important than financial or partisan considerations.
3) Democrat: I think any progressive party at this point has to make clear that, even though the Democratic Party today is moribund and corrupt, almost always in a given race the Democrat has positions that are closer to progressive than the Republican. A new party has to be very careful, I think, not to be a spoiler that throws races to the Republicans. In fact, I think any candidate in such a party should make it clear that they will withdraw and support the better candidate (almost always a Democrat) if it is clear the progressive cannot win and will only drain votes from the better candidate.
Just my two cents.